Contributors

 

Kristin Anderson is a DPhil Candidate in English literature at Exeter College, Oxford. She is an editor of The Oxonian Review of Books.

Scarlett Baron is a DPhil student in English literature at Christ Church, Oxford. She is writing about the influence of Flaubert on James Joyce.

Nicholas Farrelly is an MPhil student in development studies at Balliol College, Oxford, and an editor of The Oxonian Review of Books.  He is co-founder of the New Mandala website, a daily source of information on Southeast Asian affairs.

Tyler Fisher is presently completing his dissertation on Spanish Counter-Reformation poetry. He is a past contributor to The Oxonian Review of Books and his work has appeared in The Lyric, The Formalist, and Bibliophilos. 

Jacob Foster is a DPhil student in mathematical physics at Balliol College, Oxford, and a PhD student in complexity science at the University of Calgary. His current interests range from the mathematical properties of complex networks to the geometry of the Big Bang.

Alexandra Harris is a DPhil student at Christ Church College, Oxford College. She is writing about English art and literature of the 1930s and ‘40s.

Andrew Hay is a DPhil student in English Literature at Balliol College. He works on issues of modernity in literary Modernism, and ideas of postmodern aesthetic/phenomenal experience.

Rebecca Hodes is a DPhil student in history at Balliol College, Oxford. Her thesis is about the cultural aspects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa, with a particular focus on film.

Aaron MacLean is also an American citizen. From 2003 to 2006 he was a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. His work has appeared in The Weekly Standard and The American.

John-Paul McCarthy, DPhil student in History at Exeter College, is currently writing about Gladstone’s intellectual life.

Alex Nemser is an MPhil student in European literature at New College, Oxford. His poems have been published in The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times.

Sam O’Leary is a lawyer and an alumnus of St. Peter’s College, Oxford, where he read for the Bachelor of Civil Law.

Robbie Shilliam is Hedley Bull Junior Research Fellow in International Relations at Wadham College, Oxford.

Emily Spears Meers is a writer, translator and equestrienne, and an MPhil student in international relations at Balliol College, Oxford.

Tom Walker is a DPhil student in English literature at Lincoln College, Oxford, writing a thesis on twentieth-century Irish poetry.

 

 


 

Also in this Issue:

Love Among the Ruins
by Jacob Foster

Pierre Trudeau's Catholic Conscience
by John-Paul McCarthy

Royal Shadows in the Land of Smiles
by Nicholas Farrelly

Same Again from Martin Amis
by Scarlett Baron

At the Helm with Gore Vidal
by Andrew Hay

Making Up Real Things
by Alexandra Harris

So Much For the Past
by Tom Walker

Putting America Back Together
by Sam O'Leary

Christopher Hitchens: Citizen-Critic
by Aaron MacLean

The Contest Over Sovereignty
by Robbie Shilliam

Making AIDS History
by Rebecca Hodes

Werner Herzog's Wilderness
by Alex Nemser

The Oscars 2007: Crass Globalism
by Kristin Anderson

High Art Lite in the Darkest Hour
by Emily Spears-Meers

Poetry and Patriotism: José Martî
Valle lozano translated by Tyler Fisher

From the Editor

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